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Handhelds are the new targets for viruses
News At present, however, only a handful of digital viruses have targeted handhelds. Symantec has heralded handhelds as "increasingly at risk" and plans to release its own protection for Palms later this month.
[March 20, 2001, 9:29]
Handhelds: More social, less secure
News In 2003, there will be almost 19 million handhelds sold and 13 million smart phones sold worldwide, according to market research IDC. Handhelds -- including the Palm, those based on Microsoft's PocketPC platform, and many smart phones -- don't have...
[August 30, 2000, 13:26]
Handhelds with built-in phones review
Reviews Smartphones may be today’s 'hot' mobile technology category, but convergence devices have been around for some time in the shape of Pocket PC and Palm OS handhelds that incorporate a mobile phone -- nowadays typically a GPRS unit.
[October 28, 2002, 9:46]
Handhelds make a comeback
News Hewlett-Packard was one of the main beneficiaries of stronger corporate sales, and consolidated its position as the leader in data-centric handhelds with 32.9 percent of the European market, according to Canalys' research.
[January 26, 2004, 15:05]
Handhelds for your business review
Reviews Some models look like handhelds with phone functionality (examples include the Orange SPV M1000, Handspring, PalmOne and Sony, are the primary players for Palm OS-based handhelds; Dell, HP and Toshiba all offer Pocket PCs.
[May 6, 2004, 8:45]
Intel to launch processor for handhelds
News Intel's current XScale-based PXA processors for handhelds top out at around 400MHz. However, the new chips will differ in megahertz and component integration from the current XScale PXA family of processors for handhelds, said sources.
[February 19, 2003, 8:56]
Psion and Pointbase unveil Java database for handhelds
News Apart from providing a useful addition for mobile workers needing to synchronise handhelds with company databases it also opens up new possibilities for cross platform computing. The first multi-platform Java database compatible with a hand-held...
[September 20, 1999, 16:13]
Handhelds notch up better quarter
News Worldwide shipments of handhelds grew in the third quarter, bucking a recent trend, but total shipments for the year are expected to finish well below 2002 levels, according to a research report from IDC.
[October 28, 2003, 8:30]
Palm prepares XScale handhelds
News Palm has also partnered with TI and Motorola, both of whom make their own variety of ARM chips, and the company is expected to eventually produce a range of handhelds using a mix of processors. Handheld computer maker Palm is set to make a major...
[June 19, 2002, 16:49]
StrongARM muscles into low-end HP handhelds
News HP previously used Intel's StrongARM processor in its 700 and 800 range of Jornada keyboard-based handhelds, but the smaller 540 range used the Hitachi SH3 processor. The wireless collaboration will centre on Intel's Personal Client Architecture...
[September 7, 2001, 14:32]
Fold-out handhelds on horizon
News New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds. One of the most common complaints about PDAs is their limited screen size. Most offer a display of 5 by 3 inches or less -- an inevitable restriction...
[October 31, 2003, 8:40]
PrintBoy 7 Premium Edition for Palm OS handhelds
Downloads updated November 15, 2006) Full Documents To Go 9.0 support for native Word (.doc)Print directly from within Documents To Go using Documents To Go "Print" menu and button New support for printing native Acrobat (.pdf) documentsPrint documents...
[June 25, 2002, 8:00]
Report: Dell to go into handhelds
News Dell has not previously shown much interest in the market for handhelds, in part because those devices are usually sold through retail channels, where the company doesn't have a presence. The ARS report speculates that Dell might have reversed...
[June 21, 2002, 15:14]
Palm launches new handhelds
News Palm will begin pitching three new handhelds on Wednesday as it looks to expand its audience while pleasing its loyal enthusiast crowd. The £329 Tungsten T3 comes with an Intel 400MHz XScale chip for handhelds, 64MB of memory, Bluetooth...
[October 1, 2003, 10:50]
Handspring wireless handhelds to launch on Monday
News Since the spring, Handspring has been locked in a bruising price war with Palm amid weaker demand for handhelds that were flying off the shelves a year ago. The first effort was the VisorPhone, an add-on module to create cell phone capabilities to...
[October 12, 2001, 12:12]
Psion handhelds fall victim to a changing market
News For its part, Psion emphasises that it is keeping its options open, and is not entirely abandoning consumer handhelds. In some ways Psion, an early pioneer in handhelds, has simply suffered from a changing market.
[July 12, 2001, 9:04]
Handhelds connect with USB On-the-Go
News Currently, most handhelds and other gadgets use standard USB, which means that in order to download files, PDAs, cameras or portable drives have to be plugged into a PC. A new technology that allows handheld devices to share files directly, without...
[September 30, 2002, 13:23]
Sony releases new Clie handhelds
News Sony doubled its pleasure on Tuesday when it announced two additions to its Clie line of handhelds. Palm and Handspring are targeting businesses and soon plan to offer new handhelds with wireless capabilities.
[January 15, 2002, 14:57]
Notebooks under siege from handhelds
News It's not yet a case of evolve or die, but a new study suggests that the supremacy of the venerable notebook computer is threatened by more nimble handhelds, such as the BlackBerry email pager. Shifting from laptops to handhelds can save companies...
[April 17, 2001, 13:46]
Palm sells 5000 Zire handhelds every day
News The Zire is a $99 low-end device, which comes with 2MB of memory -- typical for entry-level Palm handhelds -- a black-and-white screen and a rechargeable battery. Palm said on Monday that sales of its entry-level Zire product have exceeded the 1...
[May 28, 2003, 12:58]
